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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/core/numeric.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/core/numeric.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/numeric.py b/numpy/core/numeric.py index a85e8514c..57784a51f 100644 --- a/numpy/core/numeric.py +++ b/numpy/core/numeric.py @@ -131,7 +131,9 @@ def zeros_like(a, dtype=None, order='K', subok=True): """ res = empty_like(a, dtype=dtype, order=order, subok=subok) - multiarray.copyto(res, 0, casting='unsafe') + # needed instead of a 0 to get same result as zeros for for string dtypes + z = zeros(1, dtype=res.dtype) + multiarray.copyto(res, z, casting='unsafe') return res def ones(shape, dtype=None, order='C'): |